Improvement in feather-renovator



GRAVES & CRANDALL.v

, e Feather Renovator.

No. 85,654, f Patented Jan. 5,` 1869.

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RUFUS H. GRAVES AND HARVEY L. CRANDALL, OF MCGRAWVKILLE y NEW YGRK.

Letters Patent No. 85,654, dated .Tenue/ry 5, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN FEATHER-RENOVATOR.

To all whom 'it ma/y concern I Be it known that we, RUFUs H.GRAvEs, andHAR- vnr L. ORANDALL, of McGrawville, iu the county of.

Cortland, and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Machines for Cleansing and Renovating Feathers and We d0hereby declare that A the following is a true and exact description ofthe construction and operation of the same, reference being had Thefeathers are placed in the cylinder, which is then closed up. Asteam-pipe is then coupled on to the perforated pipesa't (Land the steamis emitted among the feathers as long as desired. The steam-pipe is thenchanged from the perforated pipe to the central pipe D D through thehollow gudgeon E, and the eylinderis then revolved by any propermachinery, until the feathers are dried by the heat given out from thecentral pipe. A What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

The cylinder A, having within itself the perforated pipes B B, arrangedas described, and central pipes D D, arranged as described, the latterbeing connected with the hollow shaft E, and the'whole being'constructedand arranged in the manner described, for. the purpose set forth. l

R. H. GRAVES. H. L. ORANDALL. Witnesses:

0. M. CARB,

J. SAMsoN.

